Hello, I'm Ian, and I live at the Darvell community in East Sussex, UK. I work most days, and occasionally read books. I have a strong aversion to most professional sports. Ditto boiled eggs. I am married to Olivia, and we have four sons.
The boys usually squabble about whose turn it is to open the advent calendar; the boys usually squabble about most things. It was the turn of our youngest to open it this morning. “Oh, wow,” he said, when he had managed to rip the door open. “What...
The other night I was leaning on the estate fence up above the vineyard, listening to the sound of the wind through the pines and watching the vines shake. It was warm in spite of the wind and I could feel the whole fence wobble slightly when a...
You will most definitely not experience any kind of retreat on a stay at the Bruderhof. There will not be hushed voices in the breakfast room with sunlight filtering through the hanging geraniums, people padding over the carpet in stocking feet. No...
Our family made a clay oven last Sunday. I’m not going to give a blow by blow, death-by-exposition account of how we did it, or try to convince you to do this as a bonding experience with your family because, like all of our “family projects” most...
